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#252,362
Engle said:
I don't use pedals a lot. In a rock situation, I usually have the gain set so that I get dirt when I dig in.
In my R&B band I need a "fuzz" sound for the bass break in "Oh What a Night" and in DJB we have a tune that calls for cranking up the intensity in a few sections.
In both cases, the 4 on the Floor is a definite improvement over the Big Muff it replaced.
I need to put felt washer under the knobs though - sometime I move them when I hit the switch.
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I would say easily more than half of the time I'm not getting into the anything more than very mild breakup. My one beef is I would like to change gears with my foot and going from 1 to 3 is a pain. Going from 1 to 4 or 4 to 1 is no problem. I'm thinking of some kind of rubber strip to put on top of that knob to grip the foot better.
 
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dagrev said:
I would say easily more than half of the time I'm not getting into the anything more than very mild breakup. My one beef is I would like to change gears with my foot and going from 1 to 3 is a pain. Going from 1 to 4 or 4 to 1 is no problem. I'm thinking of some kind of rubber strip to put on top of that knob to grip the foot better.
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You need a roadie.
 
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The face you make at 47 when you finally got the T-shirt you wanted when you were 21 (when I discovered Max Webster...).
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Miles_ONeal said:
Those of you who use overdrive, what do you run, and where in your chain? That includes running distortion pedals as overdrives (the ones that you reasonably can)... A couple guys in another club are huge fans of running an MBD2 as an overdrive.
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I currently use Digitech Tone Driver in conjuction with Boss Line Selector LS-2 so when the overdrive is on the LS-2 blends the dry signal in too. In the dry loop I have a low pass filter so there's no dry signal above the 400hz in the mix when the overdrive is on. 3 pedals for one sound but with that I don't have to stress if the drive eats the low end or not. And it's only the LS-2 I have to operate.
With that system almost any guitar overdrive sounds and works fine with the bass. At the moment I like the Tone Driver, the "morph" knob is an easy EQ to dial a sound for different basses.

It's right after the octaver and envelope filter and before the Ibanez Smash Box distortion.20230628_195234.jpg 20230628_195247.jpg
 
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BklynKen said:
Unfortunately no, but I bet Grady would enjoy the job.
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He would be useless. Too many people. Which means his job/mission would be to visit and give/get affection.

He did used to love to be helpful and carry things around till he was about 13. When we would come in, if we had a bag of something we would give him one and he would love to carry it in the house or to where we were going. At times he would get a little carried away and just like wandering around carrying the bag. I've even got pic of him carrying a mop around. Not that he used it in any helpful way. He liked to go get the mail and carry that in as well.
 
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